Hello everybody,

This is my newly made stage magic promo video.
Feel free to give comments, hope you guys like it!

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjFQO0xuaL0

Kenny

Before I give any comments or feedback, can you tell us what your intended audience is for this promo video? In otherwords, what venues or prospects are you trying to show this to? It will help us to better give you advice. Thanks. =)

Kyle

It looks to me like you combine shots from performances with and without eyeglasses. I think it would be best to use only one or the other, which probably would best be without glasses. Unless I'm mistaken, Sakoh of Japan also performed initially with glasses but later without them. I can't think of any prominent manipulation act where the performer wears glasses.

I feel the music has a somewhat too "religious" feel to it, which is reinforced by the use of the word "omnipotent," which I feel is a bit much. The music and word choice make me think I'm watching a promo for "The Da Vinci Code," not a magic act. "Powerful" would perhaps be a better word choice than "omnipotent," which is usually a word reserved only for deity. Also, among the words used to describe the act, two are nouns ("speed" and "power") and two are adjectives ("dynamic" and "omnipotent"). For the sake of parallelism, either all adjectives or all nouns would be better. Actually, I think putting words in at all detracts from the effect of any visuals. Save the words for written promotional materials (brochures) and let the video speak for itself, except perhaps for a graphic at the end explaining how to contact you.

----- Amado "Sonnn" Narvaez

Overall, it is nice visual effects. I am not sure of what you are doing: as magicians we realize the umbrella productions but you do that several times (something the seller of umbrellas would do). In other words, make the sequence show more of the effect and do not repeat any. Cards are nice; I would like to see a slow-motion of that.
Overall: a few more seconds on each effect, more variety.

Im with Magicians on this one, this is your seller, you only have one shot to show them what your show consists of, do you want them to think all you do is produce umbrellas... which mind you looks really good, but like magicians said, more variety and make each a little longer before fading into the next.
Other then that looks like you have some real talent in magic.


Rick Anderson